truth presented before men can be called upon to believe. God
calls upon men to believe, what--That Christ is their Saviour? But you
said he was not their Saviour till after they believed. It then
follows, according to the objector's statement, that he is not the
Saviour of unbelievers. Now do you not perceive that if you should
call upon them to believe that he was their Saviour, you would call
upon them to believe a lie--that you would call upon them to believe
what did not exist? And what does not exist cannot be true. Grant says
the objector that he is the Saviour of the world, still as many as do
not believe in him shall never be saved. But how can he be the Saviour
of a man, he never saves? Two individuals are drowning in the water;
you exert all your power to save them, but fail. Can you call yourself
the saviour of those two men from temporal death? Impossible. In order
for Christ to be called the Saviour of the world, he must save the
world; otherwise there is not a shadow of propriety in giving him that
name. And John says "We have seen and do testify that the Father sent
the Son to be the Saviour of the world."--"We know, indeed, that this
is the Messiah the Saviour of the world."

In our next, we will conclude this subject, and trust we shall do it
to the satisfaction of our readers.

SERMON VII

"For what if some did not believe, shall their unbelief make the faith
of God without effect? God forbid; yea let God be true, but every man
a liar." Romans iii:3, 4.

We now resume the argument in reference to Christ the Saviour of men,
as we proposed in our last. We here inquire of the objector--do you
then grant that he is the Saviour of all men--the Saviour of the world
as the scriptures declare? If so, we assure you that, he will save the
number of whom he is declared to be the Saviour. But, replies the
objector, he is not the Saviour of any man till he believes. We ask--
till he believes what? Why, replies the objector, till he believes
that Christ is his Saviour--if he believes so, it will be so. Let us
understand this--you say _he is not_ the Saviour of an unbeliever,
still he must believe that he is, and that will make him so. Then he
must first believe a lie and that will create a truth. This is (as
Paul says) "turning the truth of God into a lie." But let us notice
the record. "This is the record, God hath given us eternal life, and
this life is in his Son." Do you grant, that God has given eternal